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| the learned, socially acquired traditions of thought and behavior found in human societies. It is a socially acquired lifestyle that includes patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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| an organized group of people who share a homeland and who depend on each other for the survival and well-being. |
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| share certain cultural features that are significantly different from those of the rest of society. |
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| a partially conscious and partially unconscious learning experience whereby the older generation invites, induces, and compels the younger generation to adopt traditional ways of thinking and behaving. |
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| the belief that one's own patterns of behavior are always natural, good, beautiful, or important and that strangers, to the extent that they live differently, live by savage, inhuman, disgusting, or irrational standards. |
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| behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another. Yet it is evident that not all human customs or institutions contribute to the society's overall health and well-being, nor should they be regarded as morally or ethically worthy of respect. |
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| entails the rejection of a theory because the prediction is not supported by the data. |
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| takes place when culture contact leads to borrowing and passing on of culture traits. |
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| describe culture from the participants' viewpoint; the observer uses concepts and distinctions that are meaningful and appropriate to the participants. |
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| describe culture from the observer's perspective; the observer uses concepts and distinctions that are meaningful and appropriate to the observer. |
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| is a set of categories that is comprehensive enough to afford logical and classificatory organization for a range of traits and institutions that can be observed in all cultural systems. |
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| consists of the technologies and productive and reproductive activities that bear directly on the provision of food and shelter, protection against illness, and the satisfaction of sexual and other basic human needs and drives. PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION. |
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| consists of the groups and organizations present in every society that allocate, regulate, and exchange good, labor, and information. DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. |
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| consists of the behavior and thought devoted to symbolic, ideational, artistic, playful, religious, and intellectual endeavors as well as all the mental and emic aspects of a culture's infrastructure and structure. BEHAVIORAL SUPERSTRUCTURE AND MENTAL SUPERSTRUCTURE. |
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| a research strategy that holds that the primary task of cultural anthropology is to give scientific causal explanations for the differences and similarities in thought and behavior found among human groups. |
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| The principle of primacy of infrastructure |
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| states that infrastructural variables are more determinative of the evolution of sociocultural systems. |
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| the process that involves learning the culture of the new place. |
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